THREE MAJOR U.S. hospitality companies have donated $1 million to the No Room for Trafficking Survivors Fund by the American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation Basis to assist human trafficking prevention and survivors, a press release mentioned.

The Hyatt Inns Basis donated $500,000 to the fund and the G6 Hospitality and Prolonged Keep America gave a mixed $500,000 to the initiative, AHLA mentioned in a press release.

The fund helps financial stability for survivors of human trafficking. It additionally supplies advance coaching and training to stop human trafficking inside the business.

A consultant from the Hyatt Inns Basis will function co-chair of the No Room for Trafficking Advisory Council.

“We acknowledge the potential of human trafficking to intersect with the hospitality business and imagine that probably the greatest methods the business can fight the egregious violation of
basic human rights is thru efforts just like the AHLA Basis’s No Room for Trafficking Survivors Fund,” mentioned Malaika Myers, the Hyatt basis’s chief human useful resource officer.

“The combat in opposition to human trafficking has no finish-line, and as an business we’ll proceed to supply cutting-edge assets and assist to make sure we’re doing all we will to stop and
reply to human trafficking,” mentioned Rosanna Maietta, president and CEO of AHLA Basis.

The heads of G6 and ESA additionally had been keen about taking part in “No Room for Trafficking.”

“This donation redoubles our efforts to coach resort workers throughout the business higher and supplies assist to human trafficking survivors,” mentioned Rob Palleschi, G6’s CEO. “We’re grateful

to be on the bottom ground of constructing the ‘No Room for Trafficking Survivors Fund,’ and can proceed to do all the pieces we will to make sure the resort business is supporting, listening to and
studying from survivors,”

Greg Juceam, ESA’s president and CEO, mentioned the corporate is proud to accomplice with the fund in its subsequent pure part of added coaching and survivor assist.

“In my time as chair of the AHLA Basis, with unanimous assist from our board of trustees, I supported and formed the vital mission outlined by the No Room for Trafficking
program,” Juceam mentioned. “This subsequent part of added coaching and survivor assist is a pure development, and we’re proud to be offering one of many founding monetary commitments to
the ‘No Room for Trafficking Survivors Fund.’”

The resort business has a protracted historical past of combatting human trafficking, mentioned Chip Rogers, president and CEO of AHLA.

“With this monumental contribution from Hyatt Lodge Basis, G6 Hospitality and Prolonged Keep America,” Rogers mentioned. “’The No Room for Trafficking Survivors Fund’ is now in a position to assist the business as we search to supply assets and assist companies for survivors of human trafficking.”

In April, Pink Roof introduced a brand new partnership with anti-child trafficking and exploitation group ECPAT-USA, donating $10,000 to the group.